How to get the approvers for the current stage in custom workflow using WCM API
getCurrentApprovers method is returning the approvers for the prior stage
The getCurrentApprovers() call should be invoked on the content or document passed in to the custom action in the execute(Document p_document) method.
Only this object would contain the approvers for the current stage. In one case the customer was not using this object. Instead they were using the object which was retrieved from the repository using the inWorkspace.getById() call (in WorkflowUtil class). The object retrieved from the repository would be the one from the previous save and hence it would contain all information for the first stage.
General process/pseudo code:
Get the docId of the content passed to the customer action
Create a new Workspace
Set to use DN
Content myContent =(Content)ws.getById(thisId);
String approvers = myContent.getCurrentApprovers();